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The National Trust for Historic Preservation is placing all of downtown Detroit on its list of 11 most endangered historic sites in the country. The Trust says there are several historic sites in Detroit in danger from neglect. It's also concerned by city efforts to clean up before July's baseball All-Star Game and February's Super Bowl.

Stewart O'Nan's new novel, The Good Wife, is a story about life on the outside of the prison system — a story about patience and waiting.

For more than a century, collectors and developers in Florida have stripped the state of its native orchids. Now, a team of scientists is working to reintroduce the plants to the swamps where they once flourished.

A Vanity Fair article names W. Mark Felt as the anonymous source "Deep Throat," who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in 1974.

Thirty-three years after a break-in at the Watergate hotel, one more mystery is solved. The Washington Post has confirmed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was Deep Throat, a confidential source who guided the newspaper's coverage of the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. The Post's David Von Drehle interviewed Bob Woodward, who held secret meetings with Felt, and discusses the unmasking of Deep Throat.

Tim Brookes, who occasionally contributes essays to NPR, is also a passionate and talented guitar player. He has just published Guitar: An American Life, which he describes as part history and part love song. He talks about what he learned in working on the book.

Nursing homes are often thought of as grim places. But a new approach is being tested. Instead of an institutional setting, the goal now is to provide a homelike — but safe — atmosphere for residents.

A rare, hybrid eclipse occurs Friday. The best viewing is in parts of Panama and the South Pacific. A hybrid appears both as either a complete or obscured eclipse depending on one's vantage point. It occurs only six times every century.

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, which has been made into a documentary that debuts Monday. He discusses his ideas about the rise and fall of human civilizations.

The U.S. Forest Service has always had to balance economic and recreational needs. But lately, scientific research has become a bigger part of the agency's mission. In the first of two reports, Elizabeth Arnold profiles researchers looking for evidence of climate change in a forest canopy.